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Comment by HaKProduct

Every 25% he puts a 100% HP dot on everyone in 100 yards. Usually everyone but the tank and a few healers run out. Any HP gain will save you from the 100%HP dot.

Clouds of greenish-pink gass ooze along at 1yard per second, putting to sleep anyone who doesn't move out of it's way.

The tank should use a bunch of NR (200+) to chain resist the stacking debuff that makes cooldowns 10s longer per stack. This means with 2 debuffs, sunder armor has a 20 second cooldown. Heroic strike will have a 20 second cooldown. Make sure to use all your various cooldowns for aggro.

Comment by kniteshift

All world dragons have a random spawn time, and spawn point between Hinterlands, Ashenvale, Feralas, and Duskwood. In the games story. The dragons will yell usually when aggro'd. These dragons are gaurding a portal, which is supposed to lead to the Emerald Dream. (Defeating these dragons won't grant you access into the Emerald Dream in the game.) These dragons drop good loot, and great Nature resist gear.

Emeriss has an AoE dot that cannot be dispelled, it removes 20% of hp per 2 seconds for 10 seconds. Bypassing it, means healing through it. If you die you turn into a mushroom. Emeriss also has a infection dissease, that deals constant nature damage.

Comment by Bride

We tried Emeriss last week and found the easiest thing to do (for us) is to put one Priest in each group and have them PoH their group at 75%, 50%, and 25% when he does the corruption. They only need to get 1 PoH off for people to survive. Obviously more = better. If you're BWL geared or higher, they'll have the mana pool + regen to heal through them.

The first attempt we sent the DPS running far away, but it's really not necessary. A 1 HP heal will keep people alive at the splits.

Comment by Mathyas

How long do the world dragons stick around for before they despawn? I stood at the entrance of Twilight Grove for close to an hour asking if there was a raid group headed for her.

All I got was a lot of noobs (lvl 10's and 12's) saying they could take her on alone, so I challenged them to last 30 seconds with her before she had them for lunch.

Then again, she'd most likely 1 hit my lvl 26 rogue, but I'd like to have seen the fight.

Comment by KiLlErGuY

Why does it say Emeriss was in blood furnace?

Comment by Xeffer

It's name is actually Lethon

Comment by marshseven

i was in duskwood and i heard a raid on emeriss and i waited by emeriss for like 2 hours and the raid showed up it was like 30-50's LOL they all charged at her and got pwned

Comment by Tsaza

I believe when it says its been seen in The Blood Furnace, that its from Private Server.

Comment by Cacko

This Whelp Dragon boss is so easy that we managed to kill him with 3 people but all had tier 5 and 6 gear

1st i was with a Druid and a Rougue2nd i was with Druid and a Warrior

I healed i'm resto shaman.

Comment by Morrow

He also at 52 10 ( Feralas)

Comment by hordegecko

would i be correct in assuming the vitality enchant on everyone's boots would pretty much negate the dot?

Comment by tarme

We tried Emeriss on 04-12-07 but we didn't make it first time we kill it for 24% and we got debuffs we w8 for 15 minuuts try it 1 more time we kill it for 45%

After that we didn't tried any more When you going on Emeriss make sure you got lvl 65+ oly and good healer'sand tank who can keep the aggroWith out it you wont make it

Comment by Rawen

Fun thing to do: have a warlock and 2people in shattrath, go get the debuff from emeriss, heal yourself, till u have recived summon, go to the banks where the T6 people afk, and kill them with Volatile debuff ^^

Comment by Aestu

Our paladin tank found the cooldown debuff is not shared amongst all ranks of a spell. By using lower ranked spells when higher ranked ones were on CD he was able to hold aggro.

Comment by deadalone

Just did this today with a 5 man group, warrior (246 NR) , shadow priest, arcane mage, holy priest and an ele shaman who was healing.. fight is super easy, emeriss hits only for like 100 after a block .. only crushes for like 800 ... its just the tank still needs good nr to avoid that stacking debuff. Other than that stay low on threat, do damage when you can, and heal when he does the corrupted earth and you get ~180 ish gold and a bunch of loot.

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Comment by Tiran

No. 2.4 only changed loot to BoE for Outland world bosses, i.e. Doomwalker and Lord Kazzak.

Comment by liltricky

Emerisspatrolling in Duskwood (The Twilight Grove).

Comment by Kurasu

According to an oldschool friend (which I have yet to test in an actual raid): When you die to a green dragon, you receive a debuff that will last 15 minutes. It is non-dispellable. If someone has this debuff and enters the area of the dragon, every eight seconds, a 'pulse' will come out, killing them instantly. No damage, no way to block it, just... if you have the debuff, you die.

As a side effect, there is a constant AOE 'wave' that is given off by the dragons. This 'wave', when it hits a stealthed person, does no damage, makes no mention in the combat log, but will break stealth when it hits (the same as any spell being cast on a stealthed person would). No doubt there's other effects it might influence, though I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Comment by thaves

whats through that portal behind him? or is it just for looks?

Comment by Rexia

unfortunately they changed it so you can't bring the debuff into orgrimmar and kill everybody :(

Comment by CanadianSniper

This boss yelled in Ashenvale when I was near Splintertree Post. Pretty good shouting distance if you ask me.

Emeriss: Hope is a DISEASE of the soul! This land shall wither and die!

Comment by awsomeperson

Its fun to attack him and he yells "Hope is a DISEASE of the soul! This land shal wither and die!".

Comment by Aerowix

Crushing melee swing hits for 2k on a 5k armored hunter. Make that 500 dmg on a lvl 70 tank.

Comment by obdurate

I just trying to attack him and see that he a damged me between 1.7 to 2.8 k! My 70 rogue has 4114 Armor.

Comment by Yennziuu

If im level 63, how many people will I need to fight him(or the other three dragons), may someone please answer this as soon as possible?

Comment by Kaleesh

Uh, my server is Normal, Perenolde. The world boss isn't there...... Does he not appear on normal servers or is he just dead?

Comment by Katsin

He is Dead.

Comment by Rattja

Passed by this one with my Death knight today and decided to try to solo him.. It would be possible, he did not hit me that hard and even with long cooldowns I still managed to out heal the damage. That was until the sleep hit me, and he kept me that way until I was dead. Is there any way to avoid this? People claim they move and it's possible to get away, but as I saw it (twice) the cloud appeared on top of me and there was no escape..

Comment by Disko

There really should be an achievement linked to downing World Bosses like Emeriss.

Comment by Sapira

Saw him in Feralas last night when i was making the world explore thing...

Comment by sasexw

She is really not soloable by a warlock with the new improved health funnel because of her skill that increases cooldowns by 10 seconds and you really cant heal your pet, else she could be a piece of cake for a 80 lock she only hits for about 1000 my pet and i heal it for 1300(+30% dmg reduction while healing it)she has like 800k life she wouldnt take longer than 20 minutes with a dps of 700 , after letting your pet gain some advantage on the threat.

Edit: typo

Comment by moenbase

We tried this with 5 people but it´s still really hard.1) Avoid the gasclouds to avoid sleep. 2) You should be able to clear diseases because he puts DoTs on people that does about 1000+ nature damage per 3 seconds on those inflicted.3) At some point he also used another DoT with a purplish icon on the whole party that ticked for about 4k total.

So definatly not as easy as it all sounds.

Comment by Lexodia

now i might be completely wrong, but i 3manned him a while ago and as tank i was the only one taking noxious breath. its a cone ability, like cone of cold, dragon breath etc, if you stand behind the boss a bit ranged, away from the face of the drake, ur void could tank it all the way till he dies (maybe?) since thats what you say is the only problem =] gl trying tbh idk if its possible

Comment by Lexodia

@ sasexw ><

Comment by lagavulin

Yells "Hope is a DISEASE of the soul! This land shall wither and die!"

I guess he didn't vote for Obama.

Comment by TroyDK

Cant be soloed, his sleep will keep u disabled till u die

Comment by malorn

This guys (the 4 E.D. dragons) are impossible to solo at lvl 80 no matter with twat gear. The only time i have killed him was with 12 man raid.He drops much gold and stuff and dont hit hard good geared tank at lvl 80 but his skills are more than %^&*ed up so if you are going to kill him your group must rly know what to do

Comment by pagos93

thats right. imposible to solo. tried with dk blood naxx gear at the emeris in aerie peak, he was down to 700k life when he started sleep then i was gone

Comment by Sincerity

Onyxia, The Dragons of Nightmare and Azuregos.

For a well put together or close group of friends/guildees these are a good source for Classic Epics, and some gold for your guild. It doesn't take much time, and with a good tank, a pair of healers, and a bunch of DPS (We usually groups of 10-15) you can drop these dragons (including a couple of wipes and flight times) in 45 minutes.

Every week or so, my guild and I get together, and usually after dropping Onyxia, we all go and search the spawn points for these boys (and girl) and also for Azuregos.

To make it easy for your reference, on each of these dragons, I have posted a link to the others in case you're wondering what the others can drop, or how to defeat them.

Comment by gustegop

This son of a gun first kills me with his sleep ability.Then i rez,i hop on my chopper,aggro him for fun and while i run away he dots me and kills my bike... DK Blood Tank 32k hp unbuffed-Definitely not soloable...

Comment by Wardance

2 manned this beaty with 80 disc priest and 80 retri pally. took a while tough :P ~22mins

Comment by RestoHealzAv

2 manned with a level 68 restoration druid and a level 80 blood deatknight. The sleep ended up killing me. Shadowmeld didn't quite work on this guy. Our DK was lucky that his CDs had just ended, so he managed to kill him.

We did get Anachronos down to 20% before he despawned so we thought that we might have a chance.

Comment by valonos

so just say he is in ashenvale, could i kite him to org is it possible?

Comment by NobodyYouKnow

If your a lvl 32+ hunter, you can have a little fun with the world dragons that spawn in this zone. >:)

First, watch the way the dragon patrols. Then drop a freezing trap where it's going to move to, but make sure it's far enough ahead of the dragon that you do not aggro it. Once you drop the trap feign death. Remain that way. Once the dragon hits the trap it will try to go after you, but, since your already feigning death, it can't attack you. You know the /yell the dragon does when it is first aggroed? Well, it's going to spam that for the next 20-30 seconds. Anyone who is close enough, and by this I mean within 300 yards of the boss, is going to be spammed. xDOnce it stops spamming, feel free to stop feigning death whenever you feel like you can safely do so.

Edit: cause hunters no longer get feign death at level thirty; they now get it at level thirty-two.

Comment by excelsior75052

So true about not soloable. Tried with 3 level 80's quite decently geared, and he was constantly sleeping all of us... despite me tanking him on the move. Didn't matter, because I would inevitably hit the green crud... and there I go sleeping on the job. Definitely not an easy task, by far.

Comment by neojudas

Killed by Dk blood + Shaman restoration geareds.

Easy kill but slow combat.

-C'Thun EU server-

Comment by bigdude

alot of post on this boss being 2 manned dont believe itthis boss has sleep cast that is on 10 party members for 2 min and he cast it very often. Blizz did this on purpose so you have to have alot of ppl to fight him . take 12 at least to absorb the sleep effect that cant be dispelled . we killed him with 20 ppl most were 55-65 range dk tanked and shaman healed both 80 and 80 pally and tank and healer were both full t6/ t7.5 gear his stacks alone would have dropped you as you slept

Comment by bigdude

why arent the world dragons a achievement?

Comment by Twuh

Hey,We just did this today with a 2 man group. Rogue pve KZ-ZA eq (pve talents) and me resto druid S1-2+vindi (pvp talents), on blizzlike server. This dragon Emeriss on our server casts all spells which you are writing on this page and has got about 350kHP. screen is there

Comment by ryokuga

For some reason I can "hear" her yell all the way inside the cave in Demon Ridge in Felfire Hill, 1 heck of a loud shout, I thought it was some sort of elite in the cave until I WowHead her name...

Comment by atli123

I found it out the hard way that she can NOT be soloed! ^^

Comment by Armateh

Just want to let everybody know that Emeriss is a female not a male.

Comment by julienpdx

okay i'm sorry but any npc that simply spams the same ability over and over again with no DR = bad imagination on the part of blizzard

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Comment by Emeriss

Omg thats me!

Comment by Kiarata

2 manned both Ysondre and Emeriss today with resto druid/rogue though judging by how it went i guess it would go well with resto druid + any dps / tank class (although i think it would be rather difficult with a caster, verging on impossible if they dont have dots).

It wasn't particularly difficult with this setup on either...rogue tanked him facing sideways (so only he gets breath debuff) keep hots on him and 1 or 2 on yourself for the disease use cloak every cd repeat...didn't find it hard though for non-hot classes i can imagine it being quite a challenge due to chain sleeps.Took us about 10 or 15 mins if i remember right. Oh, and probably already said but they r immune to all nature damage (including poisons). And to clarify the sleep can be avoided, at least for those that dont need to be in melee range, just stand max range and move as it comes towards you.

Good luck ;)

Comment by gibbie99

We tried this today, 80 DK, paly, priest, 73 druid. Just got owned, the sleep debuff hurts too much. I think turning is needed as noted, but note if you die you get a debuff which makes the fight pretty much impossible. The second attempt we were all asleep for the entire fight.

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Comment by ziphon

He's not to bad three manned him last night with myself playing as both the 80 dk tanking him and the 80 lock dpsing with a pvp spec prot healer only took a few minutes and the only time it looked like we might wipe was when the pally got kicked out of the game for a few minutes about midway into the fight.

Comment by Archean

Solo'd as a Prot Paladin with 455 NR. Used the Hydross NR set and various NR greens from the ah + heroic ToC 10 gear. The fight took well over an hour, but it is possible to solo him and the rest of the dragons if you have a ton of NR. You will need to constantly move him to avoid the cloud ( I used the entire outside area in the hinterlands to kite him). Bubbled every time he used his 25% ability, and slowly dropped his hp with SoL + JoL up when possible due to the cd from breaths.

Comment by KaiSlash

We just did it with 3 80lvl group:Resto DruidRetri PaladinFury WarriorWithout any problems. Pull him down and kite.

Comment by Lunaislin5823

2manned Emeriss. It took a couple of tries though... Our setup was me as a hunter & my bf as a priest. I simply went beastmaster, let my Loque'nahak tank & damage the dragon, while my boyfriend kept my pet alive. We made sure we didn't got hit by the clouds and Emeriss went down smoothly.

Comment by Vegito91

It's very fun to kite any of these dragons to major cities.

If a dragon spawns in Duskwood, kite it to SW. It will wreak havoc to the trade district.

If a dragon spawns in Ashenvale, kite it to Org.

Kiting them is pretty simple with a prot pally or feral druid, haven't tried with any other classes though.

I will make a video as soon as I find a dragon in either of these places.

Comment by Fhoulan

Correct me if I'm wrong, as I've yet to test it since my shammy is only 42 atm, but I was surprised to read all the posts stating he's (near) impossible to solo due to the sleep. Wouldn't a simple Tremor Totem take care of the issue?

Comment by gtajedi

Just solod this with 419 NR (Prot pally 219/232s). I've done Ysondre, Lethon and Emeriss now and despite getting this guy in Duskwood which is undoubtedly the easist place for a solo, I think he was the toughest of the 3.

This is due to the extra nature dot he applies. The 25% ability is no problem, just bubble and heal through it.

Due to the space I had to kite him, I was able (and needed) to heal myself with the odd holy light without fear of being caught by the sleep clouds.

If you're going for the solos, I wouldnt recommend starting with this guy.

Fight took 18m 20s @ 669dps, dropped 178g

Comment by 45ak3n

the funny thing about this guy is that if he could actually fight any of the icc bosses he would kick their ass as they would all die after he reaches to 75% because of his aoe mechanic.

this mechanic actually makes him stronger the more lvled and geared players are.

Comment by Ivon

My Tank just sat and auto attacked while i switched to my druid to heal; Divine Protection / Barkskin during corrupted earth and healed through it. Got hit by the sleep clouds (druid) a few times but nothing major.

Comment by itisi52

Possible reference to Emrys, the welsh name for Merlin.

Comment by bigearlx

One thing I don't see mentioned here, at least explicitly, is the spell lock. Any spell or ability you use while in combat with Emeriss, or at least while within a dozen yards of him, will immediately be subject to a 20-second cooldown. In light of this, I don't see how people are healing through duoing him, and the only classes I can imagine soloing him under this mechanic would be plate wearers, massively overgeared, just auto-attacking him down.

Oh, and he's immune to nature, too. Completely immune. I tried to solo him on a moonkin druid. The best word to describe the result would be "tragicomedic".

Comment by Surveysays

I'm a prot pally and got him to 2% with 277 NR before some horde came and bugged him out causing him to reset. I won't explain how, but it is pretty easy to grief anyone fighting this boss.

Kite him in a big circle and never get close to any clouds (they will move towards you and if you get hit put you to sleep). At 75%, 50% and 25% he will use use an ability which will bring your health down below 20%, this is when you want to use your cooldowns (either LOH or bubble + holy light to get back to full hp). The fight lasts so long your cooldowns will always be up.

Use judgement of light, seal of light, and sacred shield and your HP will stay near 100%. Divine plea will stay up the whole fight from auto attacking so mana won't be an issue because you can hardly use any abilities. Cleanse the disease whenever cleanse comes off cooldown.

The fight is very simple with a bit of NR and all depends on how well you can kite w/o getting hit by a cloud.

Comment by Meviuz

Done all dragons with pala tank and dk dps. Emeriss soloed with pala cause I died after half minute as dps because of his 20% HP loosing per sec debuff. I think all can be soloed as pala. We both ICC gear.

Comment by Anthromorph

As a boomkin, I have soloed Azuregos who has more hp than this guy, hits harder, but the Noxious Breath the corrupted green world boss dragons do signed my death warrant. At 6 stacks, it's 60 seconds cooldown on all your spells. A serious fight indeed

Comment by Octayvius

This dragon i being removed in cataclysm, along with all the other world dragons and azuregos, get the items you want while you can.

Comment by Skorpion9x

Soloed as feral druid in nearly all BiS cat gear, tank spec. This one was quite difficult because of his every-25% DoT ability. The entire fight was spent kiting him around the area that I fought him in (Feralas - killed nearby adds first; they have a long respawn timer) to avoid being put to sleep by the clouds. I started out in cat form to get some quick damage on him. After putting up a 5 point rip, I went bear and stayed in that form for the rest of the fight, using all attacks whenever I could. The Berserk talent is nice on these dragons, because when it procs, it takes mangle off CD. Of course you can only put lacerate up once a minute with 6 stacks of the breath.

The first DoT came quite quickly thanks to the rip, and for it, I used Enrage (with t10 bonus), Barkskin, and Frenzied Regeneration. Barkskin and Enrage had come back up in time for the second one, for which I used those plus Survival Instincts. After that, I had to slow my dps a bit when he got close to 30% to wait for Survival Instincts to come off CD again. It is necessary to keep doing something to him every so often to keep him in combat. One attempt, he ended up resetting because I stopped hitting him completely. Once Frenzied Regeneration cooled down, I resumed dps, and barely survived the last DoT with the three survival abilities. I had to use a healing potion to stay alive. It was smooth sailing after that.

Comment by Imatree

I would think this is only Soloable by Classes that have healing abilities, as those who don't will most certainly get killed by the 100% health debuff, or shortly after it. I've soloed all of the other World Dragons as a Hunter, but with the noxious breath, the sleeping cloud, and the 100% health debuff, I'm calling it quits on this one.

Comment by darkpanda

All the Emerald Dream Portal Guardians (4) will be removed in 4.0.3, dunno why.. i hope they continuing the emerald dream lore on with next expansion!

Comment by Gavinx

Well, seeing as patch 4.0.3a drops tomorrow and this is the last day these dragons are killable, I will share a secret that no-one appears to have posted.

The 4 dragons, Emeriss, Lethon, Ysondre and Taerar all SPAWN AT THE SAME TIME.

This knowledge made farming these a breeze.

I parked a couple of alts at the dream portals, as soon as i found Emeriss, i knew the 3 I could kill were at the other portals.

I could solo all but Emeriss on my hunter and have a nice bank full of toad schematics, dream vision recipes and epic blacksmithing plans.

Spawn time appears to be around 4 days

Comment by AmayaHinageshi

Wow... Seems like this guy was in the game a LONG time ago. I always wondered why there were green portals that lead nowhere in Hinterlands, Ashenvale, Feralas, and Duskwood. I guess this is my answer.

Comment by Akafoxslayer

Ah how I miss hearing him yell when someone encounters him, good times, good times.